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Volume 12, Number 4—April 2006
Research

Recently Acquired Toxoplasma gondii Infection, Brazil

Jeffrey L. Jones*Comments to Author , Cristina Muccioli†, Rubens Belfort†, Gary N. Holland‡, Jacquelin M. Roberts*, and Claudio Silveira§
Author affiliations: *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; †Federal University of São Paulo Paulista School of Medicine, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; ‡David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA; §Clinica Silveira, Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

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Table 5

Factors associated with risk for acute Toxoplasma gondii infection in multivariate analysis, Erechim, Brazil, 2003–2004

Factor OR (95% CI)* p value
All persons (N = 241), factors representing >100 cases and p<0.05 in univariate analysis
Born in Erechim or upper Uruguay 0.19 (0.09–0.39) <0.0001
Work in garden 2.35 (1.27–4.33) 0.006
Eat cured, dried, or smoked meat given by friend or relative 1.58 (0.86–2.91) 0.14
Eat rare meat 1.35 (0.76–2.41) 0.31
Eat frozen lamb 2.06 (1.15–3.67) 0.02
Male sex 1.21 (0.59–2.49) 0.60
Women >18 y (n = 86), factors representing >30 cases and p<0.05 in univariate analysis†
>1 child 14.94 (3.68–60.73) 0.0002
Work with animals 1.74 (0.24–12.86) 0.59
>1 cat living at home 0.63 (0.05–7.35) 0.71
>1 kitten living at home 2.95 (0.21–41.03) 0.42
Feed cat dried food 0.86 (0.04–19.10) 0.93
Work in the garden in past 12 mo 1.09 (0.29–4.05) 0.90
Children <18 y (n = 106), factors representing >50 cases and p<0.05 in univariate analysis
Born in Erechim or upper Uruguay 0.04 (0.01–0.22) 0.0002
Eat cured, dried, or smoked meat given by a friend or relative 1.75 (0.51–6.02) 0.37
Eat frozen lamb 4.52 (0.85–23.97) 0.08
Eat rare meat 2.52 (0.93–6.81) 0.07
Male sex 5.70 (1.95–16.66) 0.002

*Referent is absence of factor. OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval.
†The factor "lived in present home >12 mo" had a p value of 0.01 in univariate analysis, but 95% CI calculated with logit crossed 1; therefore, it was not included.

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